7/02/2009 @ 12:20PM

In Pictures: Eight Celebrity Business Bombs

Usher

Musician

Restaurant and wine bar: The Grape, in Atlanta

In 2007 R&B singer and self-styled oenophile Usher Raymond IV told the Palm Beach Post of his new venture: “I just felt like, you know what? It’s a sound investment.” He had high hopes, indeed, with a plan to open branches in destinations as far as Shanghai and South America. More focus at home might have helped: Grape did not renew its liquor license with the Georgia Department for Revenue this year, and parent company Grape Enterprise Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November.